MPR/ Landlords' suit against St. Paul over 'problem properties' going to trial

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St. Paul's Frogtown: The war for a neighborhood & the city's malicious war on landlords.

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Pioneer Press Reporter Freddy Melo said;
Side by side, they're hoping to accomplish what the troubled housing market and unscrupulous landlords have not: revive a community.
Town Hall host opinion--->
Freddy have you forgotten the city's rogue housing code enforcement policy has made it unprofitable for private individuals to rehabilitate homes in Saint Paul?
Haven't we had enough, of over 10 years of blaming landlords and bars for social ills because the city and police can't find a workable crime strategy? The city is on a quest to shove as many landlords out of town as they can. If the city has to label a landlord a slumlord to get rid of them they do. And good ole boys like Freddy here are all to happy to help the city demonize landlords and deceive the public. How does it feel to be a brown nosing puppet Freddy?
Here is the kind of thing Freddy and the city support...
522 Charles- As of today I couldn't verify a building permit was pulled for this house. There is no information showing a vacant building fee was paid. It looks like I am going to have to make sure none of these hand picked non profits gets a wink and a nod from the city to cut corners. Landlords aren't allowed to cut any corners. And as we have seen in the past the city has given a wink and a nod to a non profit that used children to remove asbestos siding without proper training or the use of hazmat equipment.

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St. Paul pays $90K to two men who said police beat them

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St. Paul woman's lawsuit alleges jail mistreatment

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Saint Paul/ Celebrating the latest victory I dedicated this song to the plaintiffs of the fair housing lawsuits

Greetings Everyone, Lets have some fun! As you watch this video imagine the fair housing lawsuit plaintiffs are on stage performing. Imagine the plaintiffs are singing about the fair housing lawsuits. In the front row of the auditorium sits Randy Kelly, Andy Dawkins, Steve Magner, Dick Lippert, Mayor Chris Coleman, and the city council. Behind them is everyone else in the city who would like to see the landlords lose their case. SO onward with the SHOW, please click play!

Saint Paul Fair Housing Lawsuits/ President Obama put squeeze on DFL leaders.

It's enough to recall the old joke that liberals love the poor in theory—it's the actual poor they have a problem with.
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After being abandoned by the liberal left the City of Saint Paul seeks to withdraw from United States Supreme Court case Magner vs. Gallagher

In my opinion the city's response is absurd! Read the press release here.

Saint Paul Fair Housing Lawsuits No. 10-1032 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (AMICUS BRIEFS)

Institutional racist vs Anti racist? You decide.
View all the briefs HERE.

Closed Door Session regarding litigation in Steinhauser, et al vs. City of Saint Paul.

City of Saint Paul Meeting Agenda City Council
Council President Kathy Lantry
Councilmember Dan Bostrom
Councilmember Amy Brendmoen
Councilmember Melvin Carter III
Councilmember Russ Stark
Councilmember Dave Thune
Councilmember Chris Tolbert

City Hall and Court House
15 West Kellogg Boulevard
Phone: 651-266-8560

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 8:30 AM Northwest Conference Room - 310, City Hall
Host opinion-->This day would have never come if there was honest fair governing for all.

Saint Paul Fair Housing Lawsuits/ National Housing Institute Is concerned about city housing practices.

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"YOU can't hide from the truth!/ Patricia Bruce vs. Aaron Walter Foster

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Saint Paul Fair Housing Lawsuits/ No. 10-1032 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

STEVE MAGNER ET AL.,
Petitioners,
v.
THOMAS J. GALLAGHER ET AL.,
Respondents.

On Writ of Certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit

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Cupcake bakery on Grand Avenue scrapped after zoning issues

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Aaron Foster liable for Bobbie Winns death.

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Manufacturing jobs coming back to America!

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U.S. Dakota War/ 150 years later, war's wounds still cut deep

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Tax Payers Support President Obama's Illegal Aunt

The Ramifications of Unchecked Surveillance/ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ANTOINE JONES

1.Unchecked Surveillance Will Result in
the Conceptual Erosion of Liberty
2.Unchecked Surveillance Will Result in a
Chilling Effect on First Amendment
Freedoms
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Burnsville/ Residents must be out by March 1, city says

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Housing code enforcement case impacting minorities considered by U.S. Supreme Court

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Innocent fawns killed by Forest Lake MN cops!.

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Cop Meltdown - Kid Says No Search Without Warrant

SOPA and PIPA Bills Threaten Job Creation and Innovation

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A sick joke/ St. Paul Public Works recognized for "best practices"

Caught by local media sluffing off on the job. Many years of lousy snow plowing and Public Works gets recognition!
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Inside the secret industry of inmate-staffed call centers

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Ohio landlord loses fight over 'White Only' swimming pool sign

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Lawless America/ Exposing judicial corruption as well as dishonesty and corruption in government while presenting ways to battle this epidemic

Online Conference of Leaders in the Fight Against Government Corruption. The Conference is Sunday, January 15, 2012, 5-7 pm Eastern Time at Lawless America

Here’s some information about the event -- LINK HERE
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NEWT 2012 Position Paper Supporting Item No. 9 of the 21st Century Contract with America:

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Red Wing MN/ Supreme Court sides with tenants, landlords

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Saint Paul Fair Housing lawsuit Update case NO. 10-1032 / City's brief to Supreme Court

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Saint Paul/ Magner v. Gallagher’ has nation wide impact!

Town Hall host opinion-
For 6 long years many of us here at the town hall warned the city and public this lawsuit was something to be taken seriously. We spoke of the city's rogue housing policy that exceeded state housing codes. We said the rogue policy was having a negative impact on affordable housing within the city. We spoke of deceit by city official and offered evidence of this deceit. I and many others here drew a line in the sand and sided with the landlords and "the truth". I pray for justice and the only way justice will be served in this case is if the plaintiffs are awarded a jury settlement that is shocking. This is the only way to send a message to the nation that institutional racism is not acceptable.

I understand clearly the difference between Disparate Impact & Disparate Treatment. I am just an average Joe but after 6 years of reading legal briefs and attending court hearings I have a good understanding of the facts. Why Disparate Treatment is not a part of this case bewilders many of us who are aware of the facts. Many of you have read the affidavits of the victims here. Property investors and home owners have lost their homes to the city's rogue housing policies. In the wake of the city's rogue housing policy is broken families and ruined business's.

Supreme Court to hear fair housing case that could impact mortgage industry

Magner v Gallagher & Disparate Impact Under the Fair Housing Act

Saint Paul/ Deaf activist feels 'great relief' after he settles suit against Ramsey County jail for $230K

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This lawsuit is not over! Please click onto the comments for some inside information.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Saint Paul/ Fair housing lawsuit update

Wed., Feb. 29:
10-1032 — Magner v . Gallagher — application of federal Fair Housing Act to claims of “disparate impact” of city housing code enforcement on minority tenants
Plaintiffs hire veteran Supreme court attorney Tom Goldstein founder of SCOTUS blog.
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St. Paul comes clean on towed-car cash: Owners due refunds will be told

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Sean Hannity Show/ Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

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Minneapolis/ LANDLORDS AND TENANTS TO PROTEST MASS REVOCATION OF RENTAL LICENSES TODAY, DEC. 12, AT MPLS. CITY HALL, 1:30 P.M.

Today, Monday, December 12, a committee of the Minneapolis City Council will hear an appeal by landlord Ron Folger of a proposal to revoke the rental licenses of 17 properties that he owned because the licenses on two of them have already been revoked. This will result in the forced eviction of numerous innocent tenants. (See Star Tribune “Whistleblower” column by Randy Furst, Sunday, Dec. 4, p. B2)
In a city whose police sometimes cannot control street crime, the Minneapolis city council has decided to hold landlords strictly accountable for drug possession in any of their properties. The landlords receive a warning letter from the police. License revocation occurs after three such letters have been issued. Then it becomes illegal to place tenants in the affected buildings. Although the inspections department is the agent of punishment, the infractions may have little to do with the condition of the building. Politics is the driving force. Read http://www.landlordpolitics.com/ronfolger.html for a more detailed account of Ron Folger’s particular experience.
Ten years ago, Minneapolis Property Rights Action Committee was instrumental in ousting Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton and Council President Jackie Cherryhomes by protesting the city’s inspections practices through a cable-television show and direct action. Several sign-carrying persons from this group will be joining Folger in tomorrow’s event as will a number of his tenants who stand to lose their housing just in time for Christmas.
An assortment of persons protesting the mass license revocations will attend the City Council hearing in room 317 of the Minneapolis City Hall starting at 1:30 p.m., Monday, December 12, 2011. If the committee members sustain the revocation, this group plans to visit the inspections offices at at 250 S. 4th Street and ask to speak with the Inspections supervisor, Janine Atchinson, who spearheaded this move against Folger. Then it plans to return to City Hall and demand to see the responsible City Council members as well as Mayor Rybak. Finally, the group may hold a rally near the Humphrey statue outside City Hall where speakers will denounce the city’s heartless inspections policies and perhaps set the stage for yet another change in administrations.

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Minneapolis out to evict landlord

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Saint Paul/ High property taxes has made the city a partner in home ownership..

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Saint Paul/ Disputed Jesus statue stays for now

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In St. Paul, home values down but property tax increases are all over the map

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Firefighter, city of St. Paul settle discrimination suit for $528K

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Happy Thanksgiving! Giving thanks...

And yet another year is passing and corporate America is promoting Christmas before we have had our turkey dinners. I don't know about you folk's but all this competition for our money is putting a bad taste in my mouth, taste sort of like an old fruit cake that has been passed along as a gift from year to year.

Check out this link to myths and facts of Thanksgiving. Many of you maybe surprised to learn Minnesota is the leading producer of turkeys with or without feathers. :)

Happy Thanksgiving ALL!

10 accused of stealing cars for scrap

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St. Paul police FORCE unit clearing problem properties

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Saint Paul Fair Housing Lawsuits/ HUD - The Empire Strikes Back

HUD's Preemptive Attack
It is rare, indeed, when a federal agency, such as HUD, seems to be issuing its position on a matter that is currently before the U. S. Supreme Court. But that is what appears to be happening. The case is Gallagher v. Magner, and on November 7, 2011, the Supremes granted a petition to review the Eighth Circuit's decision reversing summary judgment in the defendants' favor. Yet HUD is not filing an amicus curiae, the normative response expected by a federal agency, it is actually publishing its standards now - after the Supreme Court has decided to review the case.

To say HUD's tactic is unusual, is a considerable understatement!
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After three counts, it's Thune

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In St. Paul City Council race, Brendmoen ekes out a win over incumbent Helgen

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Supreme Court Takes Case File #10-1032 Where Landlords Claim Discrimination

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